For anyone just beginning their career in computer networking, I have always thought that one of the best protocols to learn about first,...

Introduction A problem with layer 2 broadcast frames is that they have no natural way to expire. If you don't understand how a broadcast...

Introduction There is little worse than when you accidentally lock yourself out of your own device because you have forgotten the...

Introduction The other week as part of my #DailyCCNAQuestion on twitter I asked the following question, and got these final results. The...

Jump past introduction Introduction "Hot Standby Routing Protocol" is a "First Hop Redundancy Protocol"... Take a second on that one. You...

Introduction Open Shortest Path First is a dynamic routing protocol. This is an open-source protocol meaning it should be compatible with...

Introduction Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol is (as the name suggests) a routing protocol. It is the successor of IGRP....

Introduction Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is an excellent tool to reduce administrative overhead. Large networks will likely...